AMD Radeon 8060S vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 8060S, vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 8060S and Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 8060S
9359
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
8594
Time Spy9764n/a
Solar Bayn/a39437
Fire Strike22707n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 8060S
93515
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
75207
Background Blur232.1 frames/s153.3 frames/s
Face Detection122.5 frames/s101 frames/s
Horizon Detection2.92 Gpix/sec2.82 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection4.07 Gpix/sec4.09 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur3.49 Gpix/sec3.69 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.08 Gpix/sec0.84 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching396.3 Gpix/sec212.6 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics13016.5 fps9757.6 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon 8060S
15946
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
n/a
G2D Mark1194n/a
DirectX 11146 fpsn/a
DirectX 1275 fpsn/a
GPU Compute8145 Ops/sn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon 8060S
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
18459
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon 8060S
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
32720
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon 8060S
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
31852
Image Classification (SP)n/a8260
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a25244
Horizon Detectionn/a33177
Face Detection (HP)n/a51773
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a190718
Text Classification (SP)n/a2913
Machine Translation (HP)n/a8985
Object Detection (SP)n/a7777
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a63837
Style Transfer (SP)n/a128419
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 March, 3, 2026
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
Codename Strix Halo Custom

GPU

Boost GPU Frequency 2900 MHz 1620 MHz
Shader Units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 128
ROPs 80 64
Execution Units 40 256
Ray Tracing Cores 40 n/a
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 232 Gpix/sec 104 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTex/s 207 GTex/s
FLOPS 29.7 TFLOPS 6.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 45-120 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature 100 °C 100 °C
Transistor Size 441.7 mm² n/a
Transistor count n/a 28 billion

Memory

Interface System Shared System Shared
Memory Frequency n/a 9600 MHz
Bus n/a 256 bit
ECC support n/a No
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 8060S
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
307 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 n/a
Vulkan 1.4 n/a
OpenGL 4.6 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1a n/a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No

Results

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